Few musical places carry their history as openly as an old Texas dance hall. The floorboards, neon signs, battered bar and raised stage all tell stories, yet…
Stories
The Texas dance hall circuit represents one of the most distinctive cultural phenomena in American music history. From the 1920s through the 1970s, these…
There's a stretch of Texas highway between Austin and Amarillo where the radios in old trucks tend to skip past the modern country stations and settle on the…
By the time the disco ball spun above Austin dance floors and Amarillo roadhouses, a different kind of shimmer ruled the stage. It came not from spinning…
Few machines carry the romance of the American road like a glowing Wurlitzer. In dim Texas taverns, the chrome grille and coloured tubes turn a corner booth…